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Jitu Vaghani is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), MLA from Bhavnagar West constituency and a Patel. Vaghani was earlier state unit’s youth wing president and has also worked as secretary of the party state unit in the past.

His name as the party chief was finalized by party president Amit Shah in August 2016, and central party communicated it to the state unit.

Vaghani first entered politics during 2007 Gujarat legislative assembly election as a BJP MLA contestant from Bhavnagar city. He lost against Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil that too by a margin of over seven thousand votes.

Vaghani again contested from Bhavnagar Assembly in 2012 and this time he won that too with a margin of the entire Saurashtra region.

He was later appointed BJP president from Gujarat in November 2016 after the previous president, Vijay Rupanis, was appointed chief minister of the state.